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over the last month, despite hurricane sandy, it is still up 5%. but would going over the fiscal cliff hurt or derail the insurance giant as many expect it to derail business in general? joining me now is the chairman and ceo of allstate. thank you for joining us. president and congressional leaders are meeting with state governors today. you're one of the ceos who met at the white house with some of your other colleagues in business. what's your stance of where we are right now in terms of a deal? >> i'm concerned about it. the good news is everybody sees this as an opportunity to really show american global leadership. the rest of the world is all messed up on this. we can show them how to get it done. they've also all agreed on the three buckets, that being revenues, entitlements, and spending reductions. the bad news is they haven't agreed on how much into each bucket. and i don't think they're trying to create a win/win for each other. most good negotiations, you try to help the other person come out with a win. i don't see that here. >> you h
over the last month, despite hurricane sandy, it is still up 5%. but would going over the fiscal cliff hurt or derail the insurance giant as many expect it to derail business in general? joining me now is the chairman and ceo of allstate. thank you for joining us. president and congressional leaders are meeting with state governors today. you're one of the ceos who met at the white house with some of your other colleagues in business. what's your stance of where we are right now in terms of a...
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. >>> just when broadway was getting back on its feet from hurricane sandy, well, then this. the striking service workers. they have halted -- are they going to halt broadway's recovery? we're talking about whether unions are ruining the u.s. economy? and three of wall street's top stock pickers come up who will give you a game plan and moments away from the president's and speaker boehner's meeting at white house. stay with us. or jumping into the market, he goes with people he trusts, which is why he trades with a company that doesn't nickel and dime him with hidden fees. so he can worry about other things, like what the market is doing and being ready, no matter what happens, which isn't rocket science. it's just common sense, from td ameritrade. monarch of marketing analysis. with the ability to improve roi through seo all by cob. and you...rent from national. because only national lets you choose any car in the aisle... and go. you can even take a full-size or above, and still pay the mid-size price. i'm going b-i-g. [ male announcer ] good choice business pro. good choi
. >>> just when broadway was getting back on its feet from hurricane sandy, well, then this. the striking service workers. they have halted -- are they going to halt broadway's recovery? we're talking about whether unions are ruining the u.s. economy? and three of wall street's top stock pickers come up who will give you a game plan and moments away from the president's and speaker boehner's meeting at white house. stay with us. or jumping into the market, he goes with people he...
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that includes some of the young children who survived the massacre at sandy hook elementary. of course they're being very patient with those children. waiting until the time is right. and say they will only talk to them, only ask them questions in the presence of a psychologist who can help them understand and help the investigators understand how to work through that process. it's a process they're playing close to the vest now. won't say what type of evidence they've recovered. there are reports that they may not get much from the home computer of the gunman adam lanza because he apparently crushed that computer, tore it to shreds before the attack. and made specifically sure that the hard drive was damaged. now, if that computer's been recovered and that's all police will say officially, they do have forensic experts to glean whatever they can from that. this is going to be a long own difficult process. they were asked today why go through this? we know sne parameters of what happened here. that adam lanza burst into e the school with an automatic rifle, killed these 20 ch
that includes some of the young children who survived the massacre at sandy hook elementary. of course they're being very patient with those children. waiting until the time is right. and say they will only talk to them, only ask them questions in the presence of a psychologist who can help them understand and help the investigators understand how to work through that process. it's a process they're playing close to the vest now. won't say what type of evidence they've recovered. there are...
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also matt mccormick, sandy lincoln, and john spolinsani. what do we do between now and the end of the year? >> we wait. you hope there will be a resolution with the fiscal cliff. also 2013 could be a difficult year. it's the first year of the presidential term which is usually a weak un. earnings growth looks a little bit weaker. we are very big on di dends. we believe this is a grinded out market. prepare for instability. >> so it's glass half empty for you right now. >> we'd like to be optimistic but tell clients buy with sound balance sheets. and if the market goes up better, we're in a better position. >> i have to press you on what you say about you like companies that pay better dividends? >> right now you're looking at the. senate bill will will tax for gross incomes of $250,000. that's not a deal killer. there was an article this week talking about how dividends -- people buy dividends for income and downside protection. those issues do not go away regardless of what happens with taxes. people need income. >> you told us last time y
also matt mccormick, sandy lincoln, and john spolinsani. what do we do between now and the end of the year? >> we wait. you hope there will be a resolution with the fiscal cliff. also 2013 could be a difficult year. it's the first year of the presidential term which is usually a weak un. earnings growth looks a little bit weaker. we are very big on di dends. we believe this is a grinded out market. prepare for instability. >> so it's glass half empty for you right now. >> we'd...
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>> first of all, sandy cost us 2 billion, but what it showed is what we're all about. we've been working hard with the people in the city and throughout connecticut and new jersey to make sure we help our clients get back up in their homes, businesses and so on and so forth. what that sends by the customers there's value in what we're doing. we're began to continue to go out. it's important for companies to protect themselves from cyber attacks and address your suit, just like another hurricane coming through. are you seeing them sitting on their hand and not wanting to do anything? there's two different men at all times. the consumer is spending like they have been, but the business is a lot more cautious. >> my business is one where it says regardless of your miss you need to protect your certainly risks, and we have do is provide them different call at all request if we had a situation where the money couldn't come out of their capital. in effect, rear-ended capital from us. if you think about some of the cast physical in japan and i'll and cries mist. all of those
>> first of all, sandy cost us 2 billion, but what it showed is what we're all about. we've been working hard with the people in the city and throughout connecticut and new jersey to make sure we help our clients get back up in their homes, businesses and so on and so forth. what that sends by the customers there's value in what we're doing. we're began to continue to go out. it's important for companies to protect themselves from cyber attacks and address your suit, just like another...
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very positive comments on capacity and business coming back after sandy, so there's two groups that held up and, of course, apple up as well. >> interesting to see the defense stocks act that way, bob, even though we're expecting layoffs in the sector. >> yeah. this is what's remarkable to me. overall you would think orders, like future orders, which is what defense spending -- defense stocks trade on would be noticeable to the downside and there's ate lot of worry. not underperforming the market. since the beginning of the deekz december, they have been outperforming. >> go ahead, debra. >> been at the tax rates before and it wasn't like nobody jumped out of market. stocks did outperform at market. >> but that was a very different time, wasn't it? we were on the east internet. you had dotcoms soaring and money moving into technology right before the year 2000. we had a balanced budget. in fact, a surplus under president clinton. very different economic moment. >> right, but you can still argue that you also have another internet boom going on with the mobile boom. >> i think the big thi
very positive comments on capacity and business coming back after sandy, so there's two groups that held up and, of course, apple up as well. >> interesting to see the defense stocks act that way, bob, even though we're expecting layoffs in the sector. >> yeah. this is what's remarkable to me. overall you would think orders, like future orders, which is what defense spending -- defense stocks trade on would be noticeable to the downside and there's ate lot of worry. not...
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we heard it earlier once again on this program with congressman sandy levin who blamed john boehner and the republicans. it was a similar tune yesterday from john boehner blaming the president. yesterday i heard from many of you after my interview with democratic senator ben cardiff. some of you liked it, others did not like it. thank you very much for all of your feedback. i truly appreciate it. yes, i know i was tough. but, no tougher than i've been and will be to politicians on both sides of the aisle who won't answer direct questions. who draw lines in the sand while businesses, the economy, and individuals suffer the consequences of their inaction. i'm
we heard it earlier once again on this program with congressman sandy levin who blamed john boehner and the republicans. it was a similar tune yesterday from john boehner blaming the president. yesterday i heard from many of you after my interview with democratic senator ben cardiff. some of you liked it, others did not like it. thank you very much for all of your feedback. i truly appreciate it. yes, i know i was tough. but, no tougher than i've been and will be to politicians on both sides of...